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Farm Safety Expos To Provide Farmers With The Latest In Farm Safety

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) in conjunction with Acklands-Grainger and major safety manufacturers will showcase the latest in farm safety at Farm Safety Expos to be held February 14 to 17 in rural Manitoba. In addition to general safety protection, the trade shows will feature special products and safety specialists in welding safety, respiratory safety, gas
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Proper Fit Is Key To Respiratory Safety

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Disposable particulate respirators are being made available free through provincial farm safety agencies to help farmers plan for safety on their farms. However, if you wear a respirator improperly, then you might as well have none at all. So the key message is to think ahead, have a respirator handy, and know how to use
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A New Way To Plan For Safety

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The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association is developing a program it hopes will help farmers start creating safer, healthier farm workplaces. Unveiled at CASA’s national conference last week, SécuriFerme Canada FarmSafe, or the “FarmSafe plan” as it will be called in English-speaking Canada, is essentially a “base plan” for voluntary uptake by farmers to use toward
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Changing Farm “Work Culture” Key To Safety

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Work is good. Hard work is better. But the sheer need to do a lot of work, combined with the value farm culture places on it, gets in the way of creating a “culture of safety” in Canadian agriculture, say experts on organizational behaviour and workplace leadership. Agriculture’s abysmal record of injuries and fatalities says
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Partners Promote Manitoba’s Safe Farms Check Program

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Keys tone Agr icul tural Producers (KAP) in conjunction with Manitoba Labour and Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives will be rolling out a farm safety program called Manitoba’s Safe Farms Check Program to help make Manitoba farms safer workplaces – potentially resulting in lower workers’ compensation premiums. The program will be made available to
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Farmers With Disabilities Group Plans Safety Centre

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The Manitoba Farmers with Disabilities organization now has a permanent home with an open invitation to all farm families and groups to visit – and often. The farmer-led safety organization plans to convert space in a large building it purchased this fall to become Manitoba’s first agricultural safety training centre. The Elm Creek location is
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Safety Training For Young Farm Workers Important

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Safety officials are still trying to determine what went wrong on a Carberryarea potato farm where a young worker became entangled in a conveyor last month, but they say the incident underscores the need for ongoing safety training. Carberry RCMP reported Sept. 18 that they were cal led to a farm located west of Carberry
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Farm Safety Co-Ordinator Hired By CASA – for Sep. 16, 2010

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Provincial farm safety co-ordinator Glen Blahey has retired after a 29-year career with the Manitoba government for a new job with the national Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). As CASA’s new agricultural health and safety specialist, Blahey will work from the Winnipeg-based CASA office on national farm safety initiatives. CASA is a Canada-wide network of
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In Brief… – for Sep. 2, 2010

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Saudi Arabia caps barley profits:Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest buyer of barley, has capped profit margins for importers and threatened to sanction violators and hoarders after a sharp rise in red meat prices. The government said that due to unspecified “exceptional conditions,” it has capped importers’ profit margins at five per cent. Importers who violate

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